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National Express is in talks to buy Stagecoach. The takeover would result in a all-share deal to create a business with a fleet of 36,000 buses and coaches. The news has been confirmed by National Express itself, and is widely reported on the UK press. Stagecoach would be valued at about £445m, repr...

210 electric and hybrid buses ordered. Following the tender issue in early 2021, TMB Barcelona has now awarded five manufacturers with a total of six lots of vehicles, which are set to entry in operation between 2022 and 2024 (166 units in 2022 already). The contracting of these 210 units is the res...

Otokar relies on Voith Electrical Drive System for the e-Kent C just unveiled in Munich at IAA Mobility 2021. At the IAA Mobility in Munich, Germany, the e-Kent C was in operation as a shuttle bus between the exhibition grounds and the city center on the “Blue Lane” innovation route (whe...

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced that all new buses ordered by Transport for London (TfL) for the capital will now be zero-emission. 950 zero-emission buses are already on the road or on order in London. With the market now more mature and expanding in the UK, TfL can guarantee that it wil...

NFI Group’s subsidiary New Flyer has received a new contract from the Lane Transit District (LTD) for 19 battery-electric forty-foot Xcelsior CHARGE NG heavy-duty transit buses. The order includes six depot chargers and commissioning by New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions, supporting electric b...

Irizar is set to debut in the LNG Class II and coach segment as it announces it has manufactured the first LNG i4 model, for intercity or short distance routes. Manufacturer claims a range of more than 1,000 kilometres. This option is an addition to the range of technologies and sustainable fuels th...

MAN Truck & Bus launches NewMAN strategy, a corporate plan focused on zero emission mobility, autonomous vehicles and digital solutions. In a press note, the Munich-based group underlines that the company «is focusing on zero-emission technologies in its role as a “smart innovator”, with a parti...

Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Finland, UK. Six European countries in 2020 have registered a number of zero emission buses (battery-electric plus fuel cell buses) accounting for over 25% of the Class I registrations. Today unreachable, the Netherlands: 81 per cent of the city buses registe...

Gareth Joyce has been appointed as Proterra President, while A.J. Cederoth is the new Interim CFO of the California-based electric bus manufacturer, that debuted on Nasdaq in early summer 2021. Gareth Joyce, who currently serves as President of Proterra’s Powered and Energy business units, has been ...

Karsan has just been awarded Turkey’s largest electric bus export deal worth 35 million euros. The group won the tenders for fully electric public transport solutions, issued by the Romanian Ministry of Regional Development and Public Management. Karsan won both tenders with its fully electric 18-me...